Word: forbiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when I please." To the kind Lichnowsky he wrote: "Prince, what you are, you are by the accident of birth; what I am. I am of myself. There are and there will be thousands of princes. There is only one Beethoven." About laws of harmony he said: "The rules forbid this succession of chords; very well, I allow it." At weepers over his music he laughed: "The fools! . . . They are not artists. Artists are made of fire; they do not weep." He considered God his only equal. He lived precariously, striding along the Nietzschean tightrope. For all his self-sufficiency...
...will not give him his own way. And a pet aversion of Publisher George Baker Longan of the Kansas City Times is wriggly, writhy, slithery snakes. An unflinching rule keeps snakes entirely out of the Times' pages- out of the news, features, fiction, comics. Other Times rules forbid mentioning or picturing rats, corpses. Journalists wonder: How would the Times report the news if President Herbert Hoover, Col. Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Scarface Capone or Aimee Semple McPherson were bitten by a snake...
...that the Treasury disarm its border patrolmen, "which in effect would amount to a repeal of the Tariff Law." He insisted that the patrolmen had been ordered to use their guns only for self-defense or to prevent the commission of a felony, but later announced that he would forbid the carrying of shotguns and rifles by the border patrol...
...session happenings. It usually requires between ten minutes and a half-hour for all the essential facts of these meetings to be gathered up by the Capitol correspondents, assembled and put in full and free circulation in the Senate Press Gallery. Not all Senators will divulge what their rules forbid but enough will do so to make a fiction of the Senate secrecy...
...buildings the unmixed blessings of a single native tradition in architecture, that our own earlier unique and dignified American inheritance will be sacrificed, and that a Gothic anachronism will appear on the campus of the University of Virginia, William and Mary or at Harvard as now threatens. May God forbid such desecration--From a communication in The Daily Princetonian...